Anglicize Your Name

Change Your Name Girl

A college professor got suspended for "telling" his freshman student to "anglicize" her name --or to change her first name.

Apparently, the young Vietnamese student has not even heard of this word "anglicize" before. And she got a little explanation from a local news reporter who covered her story.

Although people having been born and named outside the United States have been doing this for a long time, I can't recall of a teacher ever telling his student to do this and for the news to actually cover it.

Trickling Effect

No one would have heard anything if it wasn't for this "sensitive" situation we're in right now.

No one would have still heard of this even if it would have already happened numerous times. Which of course is true and this sort of thing still is happening today, people casually or carelessly or even routinely offending Asians. Of course a few of them aren't aware or perhaps are only trying to give some unsolicited but helpful advice.

And no one would have cared to cover this "none" story, as no one cares what Asian people think or feel or go through.

And of course, nothing would have been done to that professor, who I hope was only doing this as a "favor" to that young student and not to make fun of her even though as an educator, he should have known better or at least he should have been more tactful and more considerate.

In other words, he should have been smarter than that.